Hearken
'To hearken,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:22, signifies providence. 'To hearken to father and mother,' as mentioned in Genesis 28:7, signifies obedience from affection.
See Obedience.
(Referenser: Arcana Coelestia 3684)
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #139
139. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 16
The successive states of the Jewish church. (2)
1-2 There was nothing in it but falsity and evil. (2)
3-6 It was forsaken by the Lord from the beginning, because it was without anything of the church. (2)
7-12 After a time truths and goods of every kind and species were given to it through the Word, and thus evils and falsities were removed. (2)
13-14 Thus it could have been in intelligence. (2)
15-20 It falsified all things of the Word. (2)
21-22 It extinguished truths and goods, and became as in the beginning. (2)
23-25 It turned truths into falsities (2)
26-28 by knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, by traditions, and by reasonings from them, (2)
29-30 finally profaning [truths]. (2)
31 It exalted itself above all men. (2)
32-34 It obtruded its falsities on others. (2)
35-42 They will utterly perish by the falsities by which the truths of the Word have been destroyed. (3)
43-45 Thus they will be as in the beginning. (3)
46-52 The like has come to pass with the Israelitish church, but in a less degree. (3, 17)
53-55 Nevertheless the church in general shall be restored. (11)
56-58 It is everywhere better than in the Jewish church. (11)